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It stands to reason that better attorneys are better at turning patent applications into patents. Theoretically, better arguments about over...

When Justice Gorsuch was confirmed to the Supreme Court, many commentators, well, commented that he was wary of administrative overreach. Bu...

Most academic writing on direct government spending as an innovation policy tool focuses on how this mechanism compares with other policies ...

I have continued to find the issue of post-sale restrictions vexing. On the one hand, I think that there are sound economic reasons for them...

Mike Andrews is a postdoc at NBER, and I recently came across his PhD dissertation, Fuel of Interest and Fire of Genius: Essays on the Econ...

One of the common complaints about weakening patent protection is that it causes reduced R&D in the country with weakened protection. I...

One of the more expensive parts of acquiring global patent protection is having a patent application translated into the relevant language f...

Several years ago, both Lisa and I wrote about Heald, et al.'s study that attempted to value public domain photographs as used on Wik...

Aman Gebru , visiting assistant professor at Cardozo Law, has a new article forthcoming in Denver Law Review about patenting traditional k...

Every once in a while an article comes along that makes you realize all the things that you just don't realize. Of course, someone else ...

In remarks at the annual IPO meeting today , USPTO Director Andrei Iancu said "the USPTO cannot wait" for "uncertain" le...

It's an open secret that musicians will sometimes borrow portions of music or lyrics from prior works. But how much borrowing is too muc...

When it comes to choice of law, U.S. federal courts hearing intellectual property law claims generally do one of two things. They either con...

As I detail in my Boston University Law Review article, (Un)Reasonable Royalties , one of the big problems with using the hypothetical negot...

Last Saturday was cut-down day in the NFL, when rosters are shaved from 90 players down to 53. For the first time, I decided to follow the a...